Working Class Vs Upper Class

Question 1

A1 - costs

Answer 1

‘lower costs and higher prices’

Question 2

A1 - hundred

Answer 2

BIRLING

‘several of hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing’

Question 3

A1 - cheap

Answer 3

SHEILA

‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’

Question 4

A2 - elaborate

Answer 4

MRS BIRLING
‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd for a girl in her position.’

She doesn’t think Eva could have scruples

Question 5

A1 - ‘Edna’

Answer 5

BIRLING
‘All right, Edna, show him in here’

Very imperative to the lower class
Edna calls him 'Sir' whereas he simply calls her by her first name to show his authority

Question 6

A1 - warn

Answer 6

‘Perhaps I ought to warn you that he’s [Chief] an old friend of mine, and that I see him fairly frequently.’

Question 7

A1 - fairly

Answer 7

Stage directions

The dining room of a fairly large suburban house